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TABLE OF CONTENTS4
Introduction 31
Welcome! 32
About this chapter 32
About this manual 32
About the Reason operating system
versions 32
Conventions in the manual 32
The Authorization system 34
Registering Reason 34
Running Reason with Internet Verification 35
Authorizing your Computer (for off-line use) 35
About deauthorizing the computer 36
Running Reason on an authorized computer 36
Running Reason in Demo Mode 37
Managing additional content 38
Reassigning the Function Keys in macOS
39
About automatic program updates 40
Common Operations and
Concepts 43
About this chapter 44
Areas, windows and basic navigation 44
Song window overview 44
Application Zoom 45
The Browser 45
The Main Mixer 46
The Tutorial area 46
The Rack 47
The Sequencer 48
The Transport Panel 48
The ReGroove Mixer 49
Navigating between the areas 49
Showing/hiding the Navigators 49
About different Themes 50
Using several Reason Song windows 51
The Tool Window 51
The On-screen Piano Keys window 52
General window techniques 53
Resizing 53
Scrolling 54
Zooming in the Sequencer 55
Scrolling and zooming using a wheel mouse 56
Editing parameters 57
Knobs 57
Faders and sliders 58
Buttons 58
Fold/Unfold buttons 59
Multi Mode selectors 59
Numerical controls 60
Alpha-numeric controls 60
Numerical segment displays 61
Tool Tips 62
Context menus 63
Parameter context menus 63
Device context menus 64
Main Mixer channel strip context menu 65
Rack “background” context menu 66
Main Mixer “background” context menu 66
Sequencer context menus 66
Undo and Redo 67
On-screen Piano Keys 69
About this chapter 70
Using the On-screen Piano Keys 70
Opening the Piano Keys window 70
Mouse mode 71
Computer Keys mode 72